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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp.

Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

Alaina - March 28, 2015 - Goodreads

... A very different writing style. Wonderful insight into the history of Australia and aboriginal culture. A fast read. ... Read full review

... a nice and easy read with a good plot. - Goodreads

Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

Katherine Thornton - February 26, 2013 - Goodreads

... simple book, not one that involves a lot of concentrating. a nice and easy read with a good plot. based on a true story, you feel in touch with the characters ... Read full review

Quick read but was hard to read quickly. - Goodreads

Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

Tina - June 20, 2013 - Goodreads

... The 1st half of book jumped around all over the place with little to no transition btw completely new subjects. Quick read but was hard to read quickly. ... Read full review

However The writing style of this book is challenging. - Goodreads

Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

Celeste - May 29, 2013 - Goodreads

... What an amazing story! However The writing style of this book is challenging. Lacks some details of the story (which makes sense due to how much later it was ... Read full review

ok plot & storyline. - Goodreads

Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

Ellen Au - June 10, 2014 - Goodreads

... ok plot & storyline. Phenomenal to read an account of how resourceful indigenous people are & the immensely rich & important inter-generational knowledge they ... Read full review

Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

User Review - Stephanie - Goodreads

This book will stay with me for a long time. I thought the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was tragic. The treatment of the Australian aborigines and the reach of white colonialism is an equal ...Read full review

Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

User Review - Clara Lee - Goodreads

I do appreciate this book because it is an Australian classic... and the account of a true story... a horrible, deplorable blemish in Australian history against people... but I just didn't really enjoy telling of the story.Read full review

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About the author (2002)

Australian author Doris Pilkington was born Nugi Garimara on the Balfour Downs Station near Jigalong in 1937. When she was about four years old, she was taken from her mother by the government and raised at the Moore River Native Settlement, which was an internment camp for cross-breed Aboriginal children. She was transferred to a Christian mission where she was educated, but also taught that her Aboriginal culture was evil. She grew up believing that her mother deliberately abandoned her, but finally reunited with her mother at the age of 25. She enrolled in the nursing aide training program at Royal Perth Hosptial. She later studied journalism at Curtin University. She has also worked as a nursing aide, a documentary film-maker, and a journalist. She is married and has six children and twenty-nine grandchildren. Her book, Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter, won the 1990 David Unaipon Award for unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, which was published in 1991. Her 1996 book, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, is the story of her mother and two other Aboriginal girls who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement and traveled for nine weeks to return to their family. It was later made into a 2002 film called Rabbit-Proof Fence. The sequel, Under the Windamarra Tree, continues her mother's story into adulthood.

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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All TimeMiramax Books